ERC Consolidator Grant · 2021
Exoplanetary Systems with a Coronagraphic Archive Processing Engine
Determining the frequency of life in the Universe is one of the main challenges of the next decades. It requires a large high-contrast imager in space such as LUVOIR or HabEx, able to characterize dozens of nearby earth-like planets. The detection of such planets, 10^-10 fainter than their star and lost in the bright and varying glare of the star in the images, is a formidable challenge. In the race to remove the contaminating starlight, both the coronagraphic instrument and the image processing have a key role to play. Yet, the science and technological definition of these mission concepts relies entirely on the coronagraphic instrument to reject the starlight, assuming a simple gain of 10…
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